Rise Above Mediocrity Quotes

#1. .. From there we came to love. We told each other what lovers never tire of hearing and needing to say.

Ian McEwan

#2. Souls who can recognize God in the most trivial, the most grievous and the most mortifying things that happen to them in their lives, honor everything equally with delight and rejoicing, and welcome with open arms what others dread and avoid.

Jean-Pierre De Caussade

#3. Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.

William E. Gladstone

#4. For where God intends to do any good, he first works in them a gracious disposition: after which he looks upon his own work as upon a lovely object, and so doth give them other blessings. God crowns grace with grace. By

Richard Sibbes

#5. And when the night is cloudy there is still a light that shines on me, shine until tomorrow, let it be

The Beatles

#6. Our understanding of how DNA informs our health and development is advancing at an incredible pace.

Anne Wojcicki

#7. A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.

Charles Horton Cooley

#8. Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get them read and talked about.

Edward Abbey

#9. I think a lot of people compare female writers or female comedians to each other in a way that men are not. Male comedy writers are not scrutinized.

Mindy Kaling

#10. And why the hell was I thinking this crap while Sam was in the other room with a heart that would never be unwounded again? Maybe her heart would never heal. Maybe the hurt would live in her forever. So why in hell was I thinking such stupid and shallow things?

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#11. Everyone knows love doesn't hold a house together, but tell that to the house.

Wodke Hawkinson

#12. An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.

Irving Stone

#13. We only rise above mediocrity when there's something at stake. p. 174

Tom Robbins

#14. I feel vulnerable every single time I step into a classroom. I feel completely exposed.

Colleen Saidman

#15. What we'd like to think of YouTube as is a part of Google with very overlapping goals and values. We're a fundamental part of the advertising business for Google.

Salar Kamangar

#16. There is a universal language, understood by everybody, but already forgotten. I am in search of that universal language, among other things.

Paulo Coelho

#17. It is not that we had any unfair knowledge that other people didn't have, it is just that we did our homework. People just don't want to believe that anyone can break away from the crowd and rise above mediocrity.

Paul Tudor Jones

#18. And when we view a flag, which to the eye is beautiful, and to contemplate its rise and origin inspires a sensation of sublime delight, our national honor must unite with our interests to prevent injury to the one, or insult to the other.

Thomas Paine